Nature Happenings with Dennis Waters: "Winter Time and the Living is Easy"

Nature Happenings with Dennis Waters: "Winter Time and the Living is Easy":   Today was a stay home day. Any and all weather conditions are always rite for photographing some  kind of wild critter, however, there  ar...

"Winter Time and the Living is Easy"

  Today was a stay home day. Any and all weather conditions are always rite for photographing some  kind of wild critter, however, there  are days when just looking out the window at the rain and sitting beside a warm fire is best. I have worked on my photographs and read today with the curtains open wide to watch the rain..My bird feeder outside the window has been busy this morning. We had predictions for snow during Christmas but it has been removed and just rain remaining.

  The weather finally matched the season, it has been like spring for the past few days. We have had many geese frequenting the pond behind our cave. Yesterday there were two groups circling over the cave and finally they joined together and landed on the lake.

   I wish Christmas day could be spent with family in a cabin in the mountains with snow falling and a big fireplace roaring. I get tired of the same activities each holiday, they are always spent inside . It would be nice to celebrate in the Rocky Mountains or Smokey Mountains with plenty of family and friends on hand having a good time and watching the snow pile up. The aroma of dressing and deserts floating around in the cabin with kids and new toys playing on the floor and NO ELECTRONIC GADGETS beeping and farting. 

   The birds outside the cave window are forging on seeds and insects in the grass. They are so accurate with determining any changes in the weather and their actions always predict the changes coming. I feel that winter has arrived and we can expect some serious winter weather, maybe even a some snow.
   I guess the authors of the Christmas songs and tunes like: Winter Wonderland, Frosty the Snowman and Jingle Bells had the same thoughts and mine are not unique.

Hanging with the Rain

 A perfect day for hanging here in my cave reading and editing photographs. There is no rain falling at this time, but looks like it can anytime now. I went to the T A 2 eagle nest yesterday and photographed some of the activities at the nest re-construction for the upcoming nesting season. The eagles (pair) or staying close to the nest area. They leave for short periods of time and return to the area sometimes on the nest or on a nearby limb. It seems as though one works on the nest while the other watches. I know they are bringing in limbs and other items but I have not been there when they do. I want a photograph of one of them with a big stick flying into the nest.
  While we were watching the nest yesterday we had visitors, three beaver showed up and played in the river bed. The mallard ducks were busy on the water. On the way to the nest we traveled down Sparks Lane to see if any critters were at the slough. The nutrias were sunning on their pads and some hawks were observed and of course there was the great egrets fishing.
  The weather was like a warm spring day. It seems so strange that we are near Christmas and still have had no winter weather. I hope it turns cold before Christmas Day and maybe even snow here in East Texas. The leaves are falling like snowflakes and the ground is covered with all different colors, Jane loves to watch the leaves falling.
  I would like to spend the holidays in the Arkansas mountains with snow falling and a big fire in a fireplace and quietness  all around. I would like to photograph the different critters in the snowfall and watch the Cossatot River roll over the river rocks with snow capping the round river rocks.
  Well the mist has arrived, no rain just heavy mist and darker sky. There is some kind of change in the weather coming, there are few bird outside my cave window. I am going to put out fresh food for them.